Hardware Need Help Please

[SuperSayianGod]

Hi, I need a little help. I'm trying to format a Micro sd card in my Switch before converting to CFW and it keeps telling me the console needs a system update in order to format the sd card. The system is currently on 9.0.1 and I have BOTH Auto-update and Wifi Disabled to ensure it can't update on its own. Any Solutions, please.

 

[mitcha]

hi , your switch does not reconise you mSd card because it's in exfat format i guess , and your switch need to download that exfat driver.

1- is your official system 9.1.0 ? if yes do the format , cuz your efuse are already burned.

2 - your ofw is less than 9.1.0 and you have updated via choixdujour , then do the same update via choidujour and choose your firmware with the (exfat) option.

3- you are afraid to go online with your switch , then you can install the exfat driver via choidujour , like in section 2 here , for that you need your mSd card in fat32 format.

if you are gonna use homebrews (retroarch ....) i'll recomend sticking with the fat32

 

[Lacius]

Using FAT32 on your SD card is highly recommended, and it will solve your problem.

 

[SuperSayianGod]

My Sd card is already formatted to FAT32 but the switch keeps telling me it needs the system Update to recognize the card and I'm still in OFW mode not CFW yet. I'm getting ready to install cfw on to it.

 

[mitcha]

how big is you sd card ?
did you format it yourself in windows as fat32 ?

i will suggest you if you are already on OFW 9.1.0 to reformat your sd card as fat32 and keep it empty from files ,put it again in the switch to download the driver.

as for now you are clean of hacking/homebrew .... , so just download it and see , there is no fear from nintendo to have in your case for now.

edit : have you tested another fat32 sd card ?

 

[Lacius]

My Sd card is already formatted to FAT32 but the switch keeps telling me it needs the system Update to recognize the card and I'm still in OFW mode not CFW yet. I'm getting ready to install cfw on to it.

If it's telling you it needs an update to use the card, it's probably not formatted as FAT32. Use guiformat to do so.

 

[SuperSayianGod]

Issue resolved i think. when I tried to format the card in the console it showed exfat and when I used the GUI FAT32 to format and it finally recognized the sd card in the switch. Why did the Sd card revert back to exfat if it was formated Fat32 once already.

 

[Lacius]

Issue resolved i think. when I tried to format the card in the console it showed exfat and when I used the GUI FAT32 to format and it finally recognized the sd card in the switch. Why did the Sd card revert back to exfat if it was formated Fat32 once already.

It didn't revert. You probably formatted it improperly.

 

[SuperSayianGod]

It didn't revert. You probably formatted it improperly.

So putting the Sd card into the Switch and letting the console format it is Improperly. I thought e console ONLY formats it to FAT32 when Inserted. Oh well Issue resolved for Now thanks for the help.